As much as I love Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, Sphere, Prey, and Timeline are some of my favorite Sci Fi books ever) his last to books just didn't meet his usually standards. State of Fear was so much a book as it was a bunch of charts, graphs, and data points trying to disprove global warming. The points about Yellowstone/early attempts at preservation and the perhaps misguided attempts to prevent the use of DDT, but I could have just read those points seperatley. Instead we got a book with a series of unlikable characters that goes absolutley no where unitl the last 50 pages or so. Next was a little better, but again felt as though he found a hot topic and a bunch of data and just shoehorned a story into it. I really hope his next book is better than these two.

State of Fear was a bit meh, but I have to say that my least favorite of his fiction was Airframe. I found it very difficult to continue, but forced myself through.

Favorite work? A toss up between Sphere, Prey, and the Jurassic Park duology. Andromeda Strain comes in at a close second.

I usually don't watch adaptations of books, and I have never seen a movie based off one of his works. Except for the Jurassic Park series, but I only found out they were based off of books by the time the third one was released.

I use to love his books, but i got turned off by his crappy endings. Everything gets wrapped up in a little bow in the last ten pages it drives me crazy. I don't need a cliff hanger but his books don't ever make me wonder 'whats going to happen to the characters after all this stuff happened to them.' The only ending I liked was for Sphere, but ironically it's probably the worst offender of wrapping everything in a nice little convenient bow. The last book I read of his was Airframe, and it left me feeling like "that's it?"

Books of his I liked Terminal Man, J Park, Sphere..... I know there are some others of his i like but I can't remember them.

I use to love his books, but i got turned off by his crappy endings. Everything gets wrapped up in a little bow in the last ten pages it drives me crazy. I don't need a cliff hanger but his books don't ever make me wonder 'whats going to happen to the characters after all this stuff happened to them.' The only ending I liked was for Sphere, but ironically it's probably the worst offender of wrapping everything in a nice little convenient bow. The last book I read of his was Airframe, and it left me feeling like "that's it?"

Books of his I liked Terminal Man, J Park, Sphere..... I know there are some others of his i like but I can't remember them.

I actually read through State of Fear and Next when I was on vacation. State of Fear was a good book, as most people have mentioned not up to par with many of his older work.

Next on the other hand I found to be just awful. Some of the scenes in that book, were just absurd. It also had a bad habit of needlessly adding characters. There were countless characters who added nothing to the story. They were there to show the power of genes and the law (in the context of the book at that). And it ended poorly, I think mainly because of the needless additional characters when you finished the book it felt like there was a lot unresolved.

I use to love his books, but i got turned off by his crappy endings. Everything gets wrapped up in a little bow in the last ten pages it drives me crazy.

Next is terrible for this, the main story is wrapped up in three pages. I was reading and I was like.. just like that? It ends that easily. all this huge build up and...that's it? I didn't like it at all.

Next is terrible for this, the main story is wrapped up in three pages. I was reading and I was like.. just like that? It ends that easily. all this huge build up and...that's it? I didn't like it at all.

Next is terrible for this, the main story is wrapped up in three pages. I was reading and I was like.. just like that? It ends that easily. all this huge build up and...that's it? I didn't like it at all.